Stentor

Word STENTOR
Character 7
Hyphenation sten tor
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Stentor"

What do we mean by stentor?

A loud-voiced Greek herald in the Iliad. noun

One with a loud or piercing voice. noun

Any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans of the genus Stentor, living in freshwater habitats and feeding chiefly on smaller microorganisms. noun

A person having a very powerful voice. noun

In mammalogy: The ursine howler, Mycetes ursinus, a platyrrhine monkey of South America; an alouate; any species of Mycetes. See cut under howler. noun

capitalized The genus of howlers: same as Mycetes. noun

In Protozoa: A trumpet-animalcule, or so-called funnel-like polyp. noun

capitalized The typical genus of Stentoridæ, of elongate, trumpetlike, or infundibuliform figure, with rounded peristome. noun

A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice. noun

Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha. noun

A howling monkey, or howler. noun

A person with a powerful or stentorian voice noun

A howler monkey. noun

Any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor noun

A speaker with an unusually loud voice noun

The mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes noun

A person with a powerful or stentorian voice.

Any protozoan of the genus Stentor.

A part of the amplification system of a carillon.

A howler monkey.

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The word "stentor" in example sentences

Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody. ❋ Catharine Arnold (2008)

Once more opening his mouth and shutting his eyes, and laughing like a stentor, Kit gradually backed to the door, and roared himself out. ❋ Unknown (2007)

November 30th, 2004 at 4:39 pm i agree with stentor and mythago, and posted a response on my blog much more wordy than the succinct comments :. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“A stentor, me ignorant broth of a boy!” cried Mrs. Tarleton, aping his brogue. ❋ Margaret Mitchell (1996)

He was a fine, big, broad-shouldered west-countryman with the voice of a stentor; and, although he was dressed in a somewhat shabby old uniform coat and had his trousers tucked into his boots, he looked every inch a gentleman, as he was, indeed, not only by birth, but by breeding. ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)

English freedom has degenerated into the rudest licence, and it is not uncommon in the midst of the most affecting part of a tragedy, or the most charming cadenza of a singer, to hear some coarse expression shouted from the gallery in a stentor voice. ❋ George Paston (N/A)

Young and ardent, with courage as unique as his ubiquity, he blustered in like a whirlwind, brushing P. Sybarite to one side, the wounded boy to the other, and pausing only a single instant to throw back the skirts of his tunic and grasp the butt of the revolver in his hip-pocket, demanded in the voice of an Irish stentor: ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)

Why is that above all this cackle about prosperity can be heard the stentor tones of Markhanna's organ advising American workmen that they must come squarely down to the European wage level before they can hope for permanent employment? ❋ Unknown (1905)

They proclaimed in stentor tones and pigeon-English that would have broken the heart of Lindley Murray, that I was a defamer of womanhood -- while confessing that they didn't know whether I had ever mentioned a female. ❋ Unknown (1905)

The enormous locomotive-engine, with its driving-wheels that stood higher than a man's head, impressed him mightily, for all that the monster's burning heart had grown cold and its stentor breathing had been hushed forever. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)

The valley is reached every day, just as the people in a pure democracy were reached by the ancient stentor. ❋ John Finley (1901)

The ropers, spurring and checking the fierce little horses, drag the calves up so quickly that a dozen men can hardly hold them; the men with the irons, blackened with soot, run to and fro; the calf-wrestlers, grimy with blood, dust, and sweat, work like beavers; while with the voice of a stentor the tally-man shouts out the number and sex of each calf. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Again did the stentor-note of Daniel ring forth, and it was amid thunderous cheering that Richard left his chair and moved to the front of the platform. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

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